WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon on Thursday ordered a temporary pause in all F-35 fighter jet flights in order to inspect the fleet in the wake of a crash last month in South Carolina. The decision involves a potentially bad fuel tube and affects more than 250 U.S.-owned jets, as well as nearly 100 that […]
By: Andrew Dyer for San Diego Tribune, Oct. 5, 2018 The crash of a Marine F-35B in South Carolina last week has some residents concerned about the jet’s impending arrival at Marine Corps Station Miramar in 2020. The Marine F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter attached to an East Coast training squadron crashed on Sept. […]
By: Jess Aloe, Oct. 1, 2018 (For the Burlington Free Press) The F-35 program, due to bring strike fighters to Vermont next year, has suffered what is being called its first crash. The U.S. Marine Corps issued a news release stating that a “2nd Marine Aircraft Wing F-35B belonging to Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron […]
By: Paul Sonne, Sept. 28, 2018 (Washington Post) The U.S. military suffered its first crash of an F-35 aircraft in the 17 year history of the high-profile fighter jet program, the same day the Pentagon announced it had struck a deal with defense contractor Lockheed Martin to drive down costs for the next batch of […]
By: DAN GRAZIER, Sept. 12, 2018 he troubled $1.5 trillion F-35 program is not ready to begin the critical combat-testing phase, the Pentagon’s testing director said in a previously undisclosed August memo obtained by the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). That decision marks another setback in the development of […]
By Oriana Pawlyk Jan 10, 2017 The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is slated to be armed with the B61 nuclear bomb as early as 2020, but could carry the weapon sooner, a general said. The stealthy fifth-generation fighter made by Lockhead Martin Corp. is set to be bitted with the B61-12 Mod gravity bomb — […]
In this paper are links to three files from the Administrative Record from the F-35A Operational Basing Environmental Impact Statement, and two articles from military.com regarding the F-35 carrying nuclear weapons. NOTE: Any definitive statement regarding whether and where nuclear weapons will be stored is classified; and would obviously not be released to the public. […]
Officials in the F-35 Joint Program Office are making paper reclassifications of potentially life-threatening design flaws to make them appear less serious, likely in an attempt to prevent the $1.5 trillion program from blowing through another schedule deadline and budget cap. The Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) obtained a […]
VTDigger Commentary, August 22, 2018 Editor’s note: This commentary is by Phil Hammerslough, a Burlington resident since 1969. A year from September the first of the F-35 jets are supposed to arrive (that is if they gets the bugs out). Even though Burlingtonians have voted to keep the F-35s away, the Air National Guard is […]
Investigation underway into F-35 mishap; plane grounded By Wendy Victoria for NWFDailyNews.com, August 23, 2018 EGLIN AFB — The F-35 involved in a mishap Wednesday afternoon has been grounded until an investigation and damage assessment can be completed by the Air Force Safety Investigation Board. Those investigations can take up to 30 days, according to […]